Past Films
RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with director Jon Foy
Spring Season Opening Night STF announces its Spring Season, including 3 specials, for a total of 13 films. Act now to see them all at an early bird discount of $99 (available through March 28). Click “Buy Tickets” and select ...More info »
THE PIPE (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with director Risteard Ó Domhnaill & producer Rachel Lysaght
Monday Night pre-Season Special STF announces its Spring Season, including 2 more specials, for a total of 12 films. Act now to see them all at an early bird discount of $99. Offer ends Mar 28. Click “Buy Tickets” and select “8:00pm”. Big ...More info »
MOONEY VS. FOWLE (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with crew members Robert Drew, James Lipscomb, D.A. Pennebaker, Bill Ray & Hope Ryden
Pre-Season Special STF announces its Spring Season, including 3 specials, for a total of 13 films. Act now to see them all at an early bird discount of $99. Click “Buy Tickets” and select “8:00pm”. Before “Friday Night Lights,” there was ...More info »
LOVE, LUST & LIES (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with director Gillian Armstrong
Wednesday Night pre-Season Special STF announces its Spring Season, including 4 specials, for a total of 14 films. Act now to see them all at an early bird discount of $99. Click “Buy Tickets” and select “8:00pm”. Gillian Armstrong (Little ...More info »
HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with director Barbara Kopple
STF’s winter season closes with the acclaimed HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. Winner of an Academy Award, this film has been named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and selected one of the top five documentaries of all time by the ...More info »
THEATER OF WAR (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with director John W. Walter
A NYT Critics’ Pick, below are excerpts from Manohla Dargis’ review: In his inspired, inspiring essayistic documentary “Theater of War,” the filmmaker John Walter jumps from art to history and politics and back again, from the theater of the ...More info »
LOVE ON DELIVERY (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with director Janus Metz & collaborator Sine Plambech
Director Janus Metz won the 2010 Cannes Critics Week prize for ARMADILLO that had its US premiere at DOC NYC and will be released this year. STF is pleased to showcase this earlier work which previously screened at SXSW, Full Frame and other ...More info »
A FILM UNFINISHED (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with Isaac Zablocki, director of Israel Film Center at the Jewish Community Center
THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Winner: Best International Feature (Hot Docs, 2010), World Cinema Documentary Editing Award (Sundance, 2010) At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot ...More info »
ROCK SCHOOL (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with director Don Argott
Don Argott, who visited STF last year with his film ART OF THE STEAL, returns with his brilliant earlier work also set in Philadelphia. Reviewing the film for the New York Times review, Manohla Dargis wrote about ROCK SCHOOL: There’s one thing ...More info »
FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with friends of Karen Schmeer
STF is pleased to screen this classic work by Errol Morris in honor of the film’s editor Karen Schmeer, who was killed in January 2010 by a hit and run driver in New York City. For the Q&A, friends of Schmeer will discuss her contributions to ...More info »
NOBODY’S BUSINESS (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with director Alan Berliner
Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and ...More info »
POSTER GIRL (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with Diary dir Tim Hetherington; and Poster Girl dir Sara Nesson + film subject Robynn Murray
This evening combines two extraordinary short films by directors nominated for this year’s Academy Award. The combined film running time is 60 minutes, followed by an extended Q&A. First up is DIARY (20 min) compiling 10 years of war reporting ...More info »
SCHMATTA: RAGS TO RICHES TO RAGS (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with director Marc Levin
New York City’s garment district has been a microcosm of the American economy for the past century. It was the place for new immigrants to start climbing the ladder. During the early twentieth century, the industry absorbed Italians and Eastern ...More info »
GREY GARDENS (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with filmmakers Albert Maysles & Muffie Meyer
WEDNESDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Grey Gardens will receive the Legacy Award at the Cinema Eye Honors on Tues, Jan 18. In conjunction with this recognition, STF is moving to Wednesday for one week and showing the film. Grey Gardens is the unbelievable ...More info »
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE (WINTER 2011)
Q&A with director Rob Lemkin
Winner of multiple 2010 prizes at festivals including Sundance, Full Frame, True/False, One World, and others, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE took ten years to complete and tells the harrowing story of the Khmer Rouge. Description from Sundance ...More info »
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Upcoming Screenings
May 22: SALESMAN
by Albert Maysles and David Maysles“I was spellbound. I’ve seen Salesman three times and each time I’ve been more impressed. Fascinating, very funny, unforgettable.” - Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES, April 18, 1969 “One of the most ...
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May 29: DELTA BOYS
by Andrew BerendsWORLD PREMIERE An American documentary filmmaker crosses the lines of Nigeria’s oil conflict in order to bear witness to the lives of the militants engaged in the struggle, and the civilians caught ...
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